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ThreeD Capital Adds Dr. Wei-Tek Tsai To Advisory Board


TORONTO, Jan. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ThreeD Capital Inc. (the "Company") (CSE:IDK), a Canadian-based venture capital firm focused on investments in promising, early stage companies with disruptive capabilities, is pleased to announce today the addition of Dr. Wei-Tek Tsai to its Advisory Board.

Dr. Wei-Tek Tsai received his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Cambridge, MA in 1979, M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley in 1982 and 1985. He worked for the University of Minnesota from 1985-2000, serving as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Dr. Tsai left University of Minnesota and joined Arizona State University in 2000 as a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering. He became an Emeritus Professor in December 2014.  In China, he initiated the first academic laboratory dedicated to blockchain research and education in China at Beihang University's School of Computer Science and Engineering.  He has authored more than 500 papers in software engineering, service-oriented computing, cloud computing and blockchains.

Sheldon Inwentash, Chairman and CEO of ThreeD Capital, stated, "Dr. Wei-Tek Tsai is a world-renowned Blockchain expert who, amongst his many great accomplishments, has developed high-speed super large ledger technology that could represent the most disruptive protocol of the already disruptive blockchain industry. His experience and knowledge will be invaluable to our Blockchain initiatives.

Dr. Tsai stated, "I am pleased to join the Advisory Board of ThreeD Capital, whom has recognized the value of our blockchains in numerous domains, including financial and other applications.  Our blockchains can process enormous volumes of data in high speed and has been proven in the field.  I look forward to working with Sheldon and his team."

The Company also wishes to advise the addition of George Tsiolis to the Advisory Board. George is the Founder of AGORACOM, the largest online investor relations and marketing community dedicated solely to the small cap stock industry. Over the last 10 years, AGORACOM has served over 300 public companies, generating over 500 million page views and 51 million visits from investors.  He is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and a recipient of the Dean's Honour Roll Award during his undergraduate studies in Economics.  He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1995. Mr. Tsiolis has been a keynote speaker at major small cap and technology conferences and produced Season Two of the nationally televised small cap show, The Next Biggest Winner.

About ThreeD Capital Inc.

ThreeD is a publicly-traded Canadian-based venture capital firm focused on opportunistic investments in companies in the Junior Resources, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain sectors. ThreeD seeks to invest in early stage, promising companies and ICOs where it may be the lead investor and can additionally provide investees with advisory services, mentoring and access to the Company's ecosystem.

For further information:
Gerry Feldman, CPA, CA
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
[email protected]
Phone: 416-606-7655


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